Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Yes.

Don't you just love that word? I certainly do.

In Spanish and Italian, say "Sí." (Sounds like "See.")
If French say "Oui" (Sounds like "We.")
In German, Danish, Dutch and Norwegian it is "Ja." (Sounds like "Yah.")
In Faroese it is "Ja." (Sounds like "Yeah".)
In Portuguese and Cape-Verdean Creole it is "Sim."
In Hebrew(Yiddish) it is "Ken."
In Irish, it is "Sea". (Pronounced "Shaa".)
In Esperanto it is "Jes." (Sounds like "Yes.")
In Japanese it is "Hai." (Sounds like "Hi.")
In Swahili it is "Ndiyo." (Sounds like "nn-DEE-oh")
In Hindi and Urdu say "Haa'n" or "Gee"
In Tagalog, say "Oo."
In Mandarin say "是 [Shi]" (Sounds like "Shr.")
In Persian say "Baleh" or "Oreeh."
In Arabic say "Na'am"
In Armenian say a-yo
In Icelandic, say "Já" (Pronounced "Yaw.")
In Marathi, say "Ho" (Pronounced "Ho.")
In Jhduisim, say "hufi"
In Slovak, say "Áno"
In Czech, say "Ano"
In Hungarian, say "Igen"
In Russian, say Да "Da"
In Croatian, say "Da"
In Slovene, say "Ja" (or "Da" in official situations)
In Turkish, say "Evet" (Sounds like "ae-wet")
In Swedish, say "Ja"
In Telugu, say "Avunu"
In Greek, say "Nai" (Sounds like "n-ae")
In Polish, say "tak" (tock)
In Bulgarian, say "Da"
In Romanian, say "Da"
In Lithuanian, say "Taip"
In Scotland, say "AYE"

Yep.